The speed of light: constancy + cosmos
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Main Author: Grandy, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press ©2009
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Space, time, and light speed constancy -- Special relativity -- Horizonal light -- Experiential light -- Relational light -- Internal relations -- Light in a vacuum -- Ambient light -- Pre-reflective experience -- Body, world, and light -- Existential light
Light -- our experience of light, our measurement of light, and the notion that light speed is constant -- can be understood to mark our interface with the cosmos. David A. Grandy's book moves from the scientific to the existential, from Einstein to Merleau-Ponty, from light as a phenomenon to light as that which is constitutive of reality. To measure the speed of light is to measure something about the way we are measured or blended into the cosmos, and that universal blending predetermines our measureme
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 197 pages)
ISBN:0253003628
0253220866
025335322X
9780253003621
9780253220868
9780253353221

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